UPDATE: When this was originally posted the quotation from Hot Air reproduced here included the whole piece. In response to objections, I’ve cut out most of it, but have not edited my introductory remarks. The link is below if you want to see the rest.
I know this is a violation of the “fair use” limits and will edit or delete if requested. [See update above/] But I think it’s important to see this Hot Air piece that still appears now 24 hours after the incident happened, and 23 hours at least since Huerta’s version was shown to be untrue by Susan Sarandon and others. Here’s the link: hotair.com/…
Funny, I didn’t hear a single shout of “English-only!” is the video evidence provided here.
Video: Sanders supporters yell “English only!” at Spanish translator
POSTED AT 6:31 PM ON FEBRUARY 21, 2016 BY JAZZ SHAW
Wait… I thought this was the Democrats’ caucus.
The running assumption in the Donkey Primary is that Bernie Sanders is driving out large numbers of young voters as well as doing quite well with working class white members of the base. Hillary Clinton is doing far better with minorities though, giving her an edge which is supposed to drag her across the finish line in a tight fight. Charges of the Sanders campaign being out of touch with minorities are dismissed by the candidate, but they may be bolstered a bit by some unpleasantness which took place on Saturday night. Civil rights and farm labor activist Dolores Huerta…
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Going after their candidate would be one thing – and completely understandable – but yelling at a translator in the middle of a crowd with a heavy Hispanic immigrant component to only speak English is demonstrating the sort of reflex they probably don’t care to own up to.
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Conservatives are frequently seen supporting affirmations of English as the official language of the country and the default choice for official government forms, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard anyone shouting down a translator at one of our own events. This is some seriously uncharted territory for two groups of workers on election day when they’re all supposedly on the same “team” in terms of ideology. But then, some of the worst racism you’ve ever run into in American politics comes from liberals. It’s just not a story that the media likes to tell. Don’t expect to see Hillary or the cable news networks bringing this instance up too often or too loudly. It just spoils the narrative.
And meanwhile, while everyone was engrossed in the Caucuses, another batch of emails came out. The International Business Times reports:
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Other emails show Clinton seeming to personally lobby her former Democratic colleagues in the Senate to support free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. She had previously told voters she would work to block the Colombian and South Korean pacts.
An email Oct. 8, 2011, to Clinton from her aide Huma Abedin gave notes about the state of play in Congress on the proposed trade pacts. The notes provided Clinton “some background before you make the calls” to legislators.
Two days later in an email titled “FTA calls,” Clinton wrote to aides indicating she … was ... phoning to try to convince wavering lawmakers to support the deals.
Only three years earlier, Clinton wooed organized labor during her presidential campaign with promises to oppose those same deals. She called the South Korea agreement “inherently unfair.” She also said, “I will do everything I can to urge the Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.” Clinton has lately courted organized labor’s support for her current presidential bid by pledging to oppose the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a deal she repeatedly toutedwhile secretary of state.